# Ep 191 w/ Mark Phipps (Lost In Paradise Travel) – Off-Grid Mongolia & Southwest Africa: Reindeer Tribes, Wild Roads & Namibia Safaris Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/winging-it-travel-podcast-7112762/ep-191-w-mark-phipps-lost-in-paradise-travel-off-grid-mongolia-southwest-africa-reindeer-tribes-wild-roads-namibia-safaris Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/winging-it-travel-podcast-7112762/ep-191-w-mark-phipps-lost-in-paradise-travel-off-grid-mongolia-southwest-africa-reindeer-tribes-wild-roads-namibia-safaris.md Podcast: [Winging It Travel Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/winging-it-travel-podcast-7112762) Published: 2025-12-15T04:30:00+00:00 Episode link: https://voyascape.com/winging-it/ep-191-w-mark-phipps-lost-in-paradise-travel-off-grid-mongolia-southwest-africa-reindeer-tribes-wild-roads-namibia-safaris Audio file: https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/883a95cd-4634-4c3a-9d11-12ae7b59e510.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/winging-it-travel-podcast-7112762/episodes/ep-191-w-mark-phipps-lost-in-paradise-travel-off-grid-mongolia-southwest-africa-reindeer-tribes-wild-roads-namibia-safaris Duration seconds: 4473 ## Resource Ep 191 w/ Mark Phipps (Lost In Paradise Travel) – Off-Grid Mongolia & Southwest Africa: Reindeer Tribes, Wild Roads & Namibia Safaris In this week's episode, I'm rejoined by Mark Phipps—author, avid traveller and owner of Lost in Paradise Travel—who returns with stories from two incredible journeys: a solo winter adventure to Mongolia and an epic three-week road trip through Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe. This conversation is packed with logistics, unforgettable moments and plenty of wanderlust-inducing content that should seriously inspire your next big trip. We start with Mongolia, where Mark travelled completely solo during peak winter, experiencing minus eight degree temperatures and some of the most remote, off-grid travel you can imagine. He walks us through the entire journey—from a twelve-hour overnight bus from Ulaanbaatar to the northern town of Moron, then an eight-hour bone-rattling ride in a Soviet-era four-by-four across frozen rivers and dirt tracks with no signposts, before finally reaching the Dukha reindeer herders on the back of a reindeer itself. Mark spent two nights living with this semi-nomadic tribe just sixty-five kilometres from the Russian border, sleeping in traditional Gers, observing their daily life and experiencing one of the last truly authentic travel adventures left in the world. He shares what it's like to communicate with zero shared language, the food they eat, the spiritual connection to their reindeer, and why this trip requires permits, patience and a serious sense of adventure. From there, Mark takes us through central Mongolia—visiting Karakorum, the ancient capital under Genghis Khan, hiking in Khustai National Park to see wild horses roaming the steppes, and exploring the Mini Gobi with its massive sand dunes and sh… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/winging-it-travel-podcast-7112762/episodes/ep-191-w-mark-phipps-lost-in-paradise-travel-off-grid-mongolia-southwest-africa-reindeer-tribes-wild-roads-namibia-safaris/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/winging-it-travel-podcast-7112762/ep-191-w-mark-phipps-lost-in-paradise-travel-off-grid-mongolia-southwest-africa-reindeer-tribes-wild-roads-namibia-safaris.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.